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Jeremy Duns

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Jeremy Duns was born in 1973 and is the author of the acclaimed Paul Dark spy novels. He lives in the Åland islands.

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You've mentioned on and off that you are a great admirer of Adam Hall and his character the delightful Quiller. Out of all the numerous Quiller books, which one is your favorite?

Jeremy Duns I find it hard to pick between The Tango Briefing and The Ninth Directive. But for me everything he wrote up to around 1990 was at the peak of thrille…moreI find it hard to pick between The Tango Briefing and The Ninth Directive. But for me everything he wrote up to around 1990 was at the peak of thriller-writing, and there was only a bit of a dip after that. But I love The Tango Briefing's desert feel, while The Ninth Directive is an assassination thriller that predates The Day Of The Jackal and which I think is its better in many ways.(less)

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What would you say is the most underrated James Bond novel that hasn't gotten its due from readers and reviewers?

Jeremy Duns A few years ago I'd say this was definitely Casino Royale, which had been sidelined as a result of the film chaos as well as it not being what most mo…moreA few years ago I'd say this was definitely Casino Royale, which had been sidelined as a result of the film chaos as well as it not being what most modern readers expected from Bond (also related to the films). But Daniel Craig has put paid to that. I think it's perhaps still that novel, though, as it's got a starkness of tone to it that the others don't and that makes it stand out. It hasn't received the literary attention it deserves, I think, especially in the way it modernised the British thriller. I was reading a British spy thriller recently that was published in the same year and it was like something from the ancient past, in the stiffness of the prose style, the humour and the colonialism/outright racism. Fleming looked to some of his forbears and the American pulps to give the British thriller a harder edge, as well as much more sophistication and psychological depth to what were becoming clichés. In doing so he created an enduring icon in fiction, and I don't think he's had nearly enough credit for that. Away from the novels, I think several of his short stories are wonderful, particularly Octopussy and The Living Daylights. The latter is a superbly tense tale set in Berlin that prefigures the work of John le Carré.(less)

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	Free Agent 3.51 avg rating — 317 ratings — published 2008 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Codename: Hero: The True Story of Oleg Penkovsky and the Cold War's Most Dangerous Operation 3.91 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 2012 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Free Country 3.62 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Moscow Option 3.33 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spy Out the Land 3.81 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dark Chronicles: A Spy Trilogy: Free Agent; Song of Treason; The Moscow Option (A Paul Dark Novel) 4.04 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rogue Royale: The Lost Bond Film by the 'Shakespeare of Hollywood' 3.63 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	A Spy Is Born: Dennis Wheatley and the Secret Roots of Ian Fleming’s James Bond 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Agent Of Influence: Antony Terry and the Shaping of Cold War Fact and Fiction 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It’s the edgier option, of course, to believe that all government officials are corrupt liars and that our democracies are akin to totalitarian regimes. But if journalists take that approach too far, they might be surprised to wake up one day and find that corrupt liars in real totalitarian regimes have taken advantage of their blinkered rebellion against the status quo, and that the imagined devils they heralded emerge from the darkness in shapes they hadn’t anticipated. ~ THE END”
― Jeremy Duns, News Of Devils: The Media And Edward Snowden

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“Having committed this to memory, he reflected how deluded he’d been to believe he had left his past behind and become a peaceful Swedish citizen called Erik Johansson. Within a matter of hours, he’d reverted to the dedicated operative preparing a cover story without a second thought. A few hours too late, he thought bitterly. He’d meant to investigate Claire’s past when they had met as a matter of routine, but he’d been swept up by the thrill of new love and before he had managed to catch his breath she’d become pregnant and all his remaining caution and tradecraft had deserted him, his mind preoccupied with the prospect of bringing a new life into the world.”
― Jeremy Duns, Spy Out the Land

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“Intelligence from another Scout unit indicated that several members of ZANLA’s Central Committee were currently staying there. The plan was simple: drive into the camp and capture or kill as many terrs as possible. Looking over his men, Weale was confident of their success. All were dressed as ZANLA terrs, down to the tiniest detail, and were armed with AK47s, RPD light machine guns and RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenade launchers. A Unimog led a column of Ferrets and homemade armoured vehicles known as ‘pigs’, all painted in ZANLA’s camouflage patterns and with a few of their flags flying. Twenty-millimetre Hispano cannons were mounted on the front of the pigs, supported by twin MAGs on swivel mountings on the sides.”
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